Pearl Assurance Buildings, 4 Royal Exchange Lane, Dundee

30 Meadowside in Dundee is a four-storey building with an attic, designed by Charles and Leslie Ower with assistance from W G Lamond in 1896. This former Pearl Assurance building features Flemish architectural details and is situated on a corner site. The exterior is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, with a snecked finish at the rear and a polished Peterhead granite base course. The roof is covered with grey slate.

Architectural details include a frieze on the first and second floors, as well as a wallhead frieze. The windows are cross- and single transommed, with moulded jambs and architraved outer bays. The third floor showcases crocketted finial-type capitals and a corbelled frieze detail. The wallhead dormers are adorned with richly detailed pediments and finials. A prominent feature is the finialled pyramidal-roofed angle tower, which has corbelled diagonal buttresses with crocketted finials, and a panelled frieze below small depressed-arched windows at the wallhead. The elevation facing Royal Exchange Lane includes a corbelled parapet and a crowstepped gable with a large coped and ridged stack on the right pitch.

The front elevation features paired panelled doors at the center, topped with depressed-arch fanlights and linked ogival hoodmoulds, flanked by banded colonettes. Above, a corbelled parapet with a shaped gable is supported by semi-octagonal bases of colonettes, which frame a mosaic inscription reading "PEARL ASSURANCE HOUSE" (overpainted around 1990). There are two single windows on the first and second floors that support an open-work balcony on the third floor, along with two additional single windows on the third floor with a bipartite dormer above. The left and right bays contain cross-windows from the ground to the third floors, and there is a large gabled dormer on the left, as well as a cross-window and three single wallhead lights in the tower on the right.

On the Royal Exchange Lane elevation, the tower bay on the left features a cross-window from the ground to the third floors, with an open-work balcony on the third floor. The two bays to the right consist of a single window on the left and a cross-window on the right, extending over four floors, with a gable and stack above.

Inside, there is a majolica tiled staircase with wrought iron balusters, and gothic detailed safes set into the half landings. The ground floor Assurance office includes a gothic fireplace with a stone chimney hood, a Jacobethan ceiling, and a repetition of the Pearl motif along with a gothic "P" on the doors.